Im watching the Washington/Philly game on VS. And it's crazy that Washington has 4 amazing players. Ovechkin, Backstrom, Semin, and Green. Blues dont have a single amazing player.

Perron, Kariya, Oshie, and Tkachuck are amazing players.

No, they are not. Not Ovechkin, Backstrom, Semin and Green amazing.

Some of our guys are good, some are very good, and some could be very good, but we don't have a "top 10" in the league point getter type of player.

We will need to address this in free agency sooner or later.

Doug Armstrong has been training for two years for the sole purpose of getting us Kovalchuk in July 2010.

There has been tons of smoke around the Kovalchuk to St. Louis fire for well over a year now.

Of course I'm interested to see the reaction when we send a package of something like..Perron and Ellar to get him.

Why would you send probably our two best young forwards/prospects for a UFA after this season? If you want him so bad, just throw money him after the season and keep Perron and Eller. You are going to need some young, cheap players to play with him to balance out the salaries.

Of course I'm interested to see the reaction when we send a package of something like..Perron and Ellar to get him.

comeoriginal doesn't like that... but I do. I mean, Kovalchuk is only 26 and its not like we would have cap room for all of our young players after signing Kovalchuk to a long deal. Perron is going to be a 60-point guy at best, and Ellar will be about the same (if anything at all, he hasn't seen NHL-time yet and Blues fans know too well you can't bank on prospects panning out the way they are expected). But bringing in a sniper like Kovalchuk improves guys like Oshie and Berglund, who would likely be good line-mates for the Russian. Plus, opposing teams' defenses would play their top defensive pairing against Kovalchuk every night, opening up opportunities for the other lines.

Why would you send probably our two best young forwards/prospects for a UFA after this season? If you want him so bad, just throw money him after the season and keep Perron and Eller. You are going to need some young, cheap players to play with him to balance out the salaries.

Because you run the risk of an elite team picking him up at the deadline and signing him to a long-term deal. You have to be aggressive at the deadline and this would do it.

Maybe replacing Ellar with a Rundblad or a Sonne would make this more appealing to Blues fans?

Of course I'm interested to see the reaction when we send a package of something like..Perron and Ellar to get him.

comeoriginal doesn't like that... but I do. I mean, Kovalchuk is only 26 and its not like we would have cap room for all of our young players after signing Kovalchuk to a long deal. Perron is going to be a 60-point guy at best, and Ellar will be about the same (if anything at all, he hasn't seen NHL-time yet and Blues fans know too well you can't bank on prospects panning out the way they are expected). But bringing in a sniper like Kovalchuk improves guys like Oshie and Berglund, who would likely be good line-mates for the Russian. Plus, opposing teams' defenses would play their top defensive pairing against Kovalchuk every night, opening up opportunities for the other lines.

Bravo DaDitka, you have earned my respect.

What happens if Kovalchuk doesn't resign with us under that scenario? You just screwed the franchise for the next 5 years. Backes is a UFA after next year, and I bet he walks for more money. Boyes is a UFA the year after that. It will be just like 2003-2004, Demitra, Weight, Tkachuk, and a bunch of scrubs on offense, only Berglund, Oshie, etc. won't be as good as Demitra, Weight, and Tkachuk were.

Kovalchuk is like Kariya in the regard that he will sign where the money is IMO. If you offer him what he wants, he will take it. If for whatever reason he doesn't, that's when the Blues actually do what they have been needing to for the past few years- be aggressive on July 1st and get someone that will be at least as good as Perron. There is always someone as good as if not better than Perron on opening day of free-agency. The Blues have plenty of young depth to make up for the depth we lost with our young prospects. Its not like we would be able to keep them all anyway under the cap era.

Of course I'm interested to see the reaction when we send a package of something like..Perron and Ellar to get him.

comeoriginal doesn't like that... but I do. I mean, Kovalchuk is only 26 and its not like we would have cap room for all of our young players after signing Kovalchuk to a long deal. Perron is going to be a 60-point guy at best, and Ellar will be about the same (if anything at all, he hasn't seen NHL-time yet and Blues fans know too well you can't bank on prospects panning out the way they are expected). But bringing in a sniper like Kovalchuk improves guys like Oshie and Berglund, who would likely be good line-mates for the Russian. Plus, opposing teams' defenses would play their top defensive pairing against Kovalchuk every night, opening up opportunities for the other lines.

Of course I'm interested to see the reaction when we send a package of something like..Perron and Ellar to get him.

comeoriginal doesn't like that... but I do. I mean, Kovalchuk is only 26 and its not like we would have cap room for all of our young players after signing Kovalchuk to a long deal. Perron is going to be a 60-point guy at best, and Ellar will be about the same (if anything at all, he hasn't seen NHL-time yet and Blues fans know too well you can't bank on prospects panning out the way they are expected). But bringing in a sniper like Kovalchuk improves guys like Oshie and Berglund, who would likely be good line-mates for the Russian. Plus, opposing teams' defenses would play their top defensive pairing against Kovalchuk every night, opening up opportunities for the other lines.

Of course I'm interested to see the reaction when we send a package of something like..Perron and Ellar to get him.

comeoriginal doesn't like that... but I do. I mean, Kovalchuk is only 26 and its not like we would have cap room for all of our young players after signing Kovalchuk to a long deal. Perron is going to be a 60-point guy at best, and Ellar will be about the same (if anything at all, he hasn't seen NHL-time yet and Blues fans know too well you can't bank on prospects panning out the way they are expected). But bringing in a sniper like Kovalchuk improves guys like Oshie and Berglund, who would likely be good line-mates for the Russian. Plus, opposing teams' defenses would play their top defensive pairing against Kovalchuk every night, opening up opportunities for the other lines.

Bravo DaDitka, you have earned my respect.

Why would you trade Perron and Eller for a free agent?

See my post above.

So now you are going to trade away a bunch of our youth for a high-priced player, back the money truck up to try and resign him, and then replace Perron and Eller with another free agent. Welcome to salary cap hell.

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